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He wrote one of the biggest hits of our age in ‘about an hour’ in his childhood bedroom. He would go on to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians of all time, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder. He was a pop star who bleached his hair blonde, wore tiny shorts and, at the same...

Saints are the powerful, benevolent dead. They remain connected to the living to provide assistance, especially in times of need. Everyone has patron saints, even the marginalized who may feel abandoned and removed from these spiritual traditions. Queer Saints: A Radical Guide to Magic, Miracles...

From The New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing comes an update of John Steinbeck’s trip in Travels with Charley, a cross-country journey exploring modern America with Lauren Hough’s signature observational wit, searing social commentary, and perspective as...

I Remember You: The Making of an Activist is a coming out story. It is a story of coming out from abuse, secrets and shame. Elaine writes about her miraculous healing and a life devoted to recovery and activism. Elaine’s story is rich with hope, illustrating the power of God’s steadfast love and the strength that comes from trusting God. The Audio version of I Remember You: The Making of an Activist has been narrated by the author, Elaine Blanchard. Elaine has acted on stage and has been a minister for many years.

'Rooms in Bombay are not big in size, but huge in heart. Manil Suri's memoir will make you want to hug your mother. Written in clean, direct prose and without sentimentality, it explores all the dimensions of the complicated bond between parent and child -- while also being laugh-out-loud funny...

Four-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love, deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, and ultimately, healing. Laverne Cox...

Staying Power, Zena Sharman's memoir in essays, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the lessons and inheritances of being raised by survivors of complex traumas, the book challenges the notion that one must be healed in order to parent well and celebrates the transformative power of queer family-making beyond gay marriage and assimilation into the nuclear family.

Some of us found ourselves in rooms with sticky floors. Dollar drinks. Music loud enough to feel in your sternum. Strangers who became your people before you even knew their names. A world that existed before the apps, before the algorithms, before you had to optimize yourself for someone else's checklist. We are human first. Gay second. And this is a book about the human underneath. Boys Bars Becoming is a collection of essays about gay men of a certain age — who we were in those rooms, who we became outside of them, and who we are still trying to figure out how to be.

IF IT FITS IN IT GETS IN. A Semi Fictional Memoir. At eight years old, John Kyle shares his first full beer with his mostly absent father at a backyard wedding in New Hampshire. By eighteen, he’s washing down handfuls of ecstasy with cocaine laced Four Lokos at house parties. By twenty four, he’s “Kyle Krave,” the most in demand bartender in a Las Vegas gay super club, serving celebrities by night and snorting lines in the bathroom between rounds. If it fits in, it gets in: alcohol, pills, heroin, powder, chaos.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a world that often forgets to be kind, one man in a small Providence courtroom reminded millions what justice could truly look like. This is the unforgettable story of Judge Frank Caprio — the son of an Italian immigrant fruit peddler who rose from...

From comedian and TikTok star Kevin James Thornton comes a hilarious and heartfelt story of growing up in a Christian fundamentalist church, turning trauma into comedy, and finding your own way. Growing up in the 90s in a small town in Indiana, Kevin James Thornton had little notion he would one...

'No ordinary pop biography, this is a very personal exploration of a very unusual artist' – Dorian Lynskey 'A beautiful, frequently extraordinary book. Part biography, part social commentary and part love letter, it somehow does full justice to the magnificent man it examines' – James...

This honest, funny and at times heartbreaking memoir follows Brad Poulter, with his almost 20 years in the New Zealand Navy. From small-town New Zealand to serving in Afghanistan, his own journey being comfortable with his sexuality mirrors that of the navy itself: from a time of 'don't ask...

From the Emmy-nominated comedian who created “the best segment in late night” (Vulture) comes this hilarious and practical collection of advice for how to live your best life in love, at work, and in comedy. You’d think with a résumé like Jenny Hagel’s—being a writer/performer for...

The bestselling poet, novelist, and biographer focuses his keen eye inward in this luminous memoir about the decision to start a family later in life only to be surprised by revelations from his own childhood. In a unique latticework of a memoir, Brad Gooch paints an indelible portrait of...

In this raw and lyrical memoir as rich and insightful as How to Say Babylon and as vulnerable and provocative as Heavy, an Emmy Award-winning director chronicles his struggle to break free from—and live outside of—the prescribed paradigms of Blackness and masculinity that shaped him. Long...

Michael seemed like a typical New Yorker and in a lot of ways he was. He had a swagger and an accent that was unmistakable. That's what he wanted people to think about him. And he risked his life on 9/11 to come to the aid of his city. He was a hero-but that was not always the case throughout much of his life. Rescued from a life that was heading into crime and prostitution, Michael was reset on a road to become a responsible citizen.

Hilarious and bawdy musings on disability, sex, family, and Hollywood, from Emmy-winning writer and creator of the Netflix series Special. This program is read by the author. "[Author Ryan] O'Connell's narration is passionate, whether he’s recounting a heartbreaking story of childhood trauma...

A powerful and hilarious personal history that tells the true story of the queer ’90s and how it transformed queer life in the decades that followed The 1990s were a decade of transformation. Globalization reshaped geopolitics, and the rise of the World Wide Web revolutionized technology...

Sixty-something. Newly single after a 35-year nearly sexless marriage. Nonbinary, plural, and hitting the dating apps for the first time. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. Hilariously, heartbreakingly, everything. Bachelorx follows Skye—Orpheus in the memoir—through the contemporary queer dating landscape: the attraction, the disappointment, the desire, the ghosts. But this isn't just a story about looking for love out there.